vol. xxx, no. 4 april 1926 universal brotherhood - a fact in nature

NEWS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOCICAL FIELD
into the future, a golden light, ever spreading and widening; they shall
seem to hear above the din and strife of battle a song of hope and new
courage, which they shall know alone made possible the reawakening
and the rebuilding whose fruits they shall then see in the new civiliza-
tion that shall in that future day be theirs to enjoy. They shall know
then that the light was the Light of Theosophy, the song was the Song
of Universal Brotherhood, streaming and sounding through the portals of
the School of Antiquity. And in that day they shall know and understand
better than even the most devoted of the students of today, the work and
life and teachings of the three great Teachers who made all this possible:
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, William Quan Judge and Katherine Tingley.
NEWS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOCICAL FIELD
TUDENTS of Theosophy are aware of the fact that only a
limited number of human remains and of specimens of man's
handiwork belonging to very ancient prehistoric ages have
been recbrded and that there has been much controversy
about the genuineness of those few. The leading men of science have
been very slow to accept testimony suggesting that human beings had
'evolved from the brute' before the end of the Tertiary Period, and
especially in America it is almost a cardinal sin to suggest that man has
been here more than eight, or at the very outside, ten thousand years.
According to Theosophy, however, man has lived on this planet
for a good many millions of years longer than the most liberal scientific
estimate, and has passed through numerous ups and downs of civiliza-
tion and barbarism in his journey through time. There has always ap-
peared to be some obstruction in the way of finding proofs of this great
antiquity, and when examples, such as the 'Tertiary image' from Nampa,
or the Vero pottery in Florida, etc., were exhumed, they were disregarded
for reasons difficult to comprehend on ordinary lines of logic.
Now comes a curious and rather suggestive illumination upon
the whole subject from the learned ranks of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, meeting at the beginning of this year. .
According to the press-reports, definite charges were made that incon-
trovertible facts proving the existence of man in the last glacial age,
at least 25,000 years ago, in America, have been deliberately suppressed
in the interests of the orthodox school of anthropologists who hold the